Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Pity swells the tide of love.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

Compassion is an essential element of love.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.